Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-04-14


been in Des Moines, Ia, for two weeks for
the purpose of introducing an electrical
street railway, was accidentally killed on
the 9TH while hunting near Valeria, a
point about twenty miles from the city,
on the diagonal railroad.
A CANADIAN cruiser chased an Amefi-
can fishing vessel while tina latter was
trying to bay bait within the three mile
limit and fired blank shot to make her
come to. The Yankee craft escaped.
A CONVENTION of Josephites, CT Nor
mons who follow the doctrines Of Joseph
Smith, D agan at Kirkland O., On the 7th.
About one hundred delegates were pres
cnt. This branch of the church is opposed
to polygamy, and the attitude Of the
church on that subject is the chief topic
of discussion.
CHICAGO, not 10 be outdone by St Louis,
| has sent an invitation to the President to
| vesi that city.
PATRICK MoCARTY was hanged at Fl.
| Smith, Ark. on the Sth for murder COM
mitted In the Indian Territory.
! \ PIRATE boat created sensation at
| Atlantic Highlands, n. J., on the Sth, by
| helping herself to coal and firing at the
| people.
AT Campton. KY, on the Sth, James H
| Ross, a peaceable citizen, was killed by
| drunken man named James Buchanan.
| Mrs VIRGINIA G. OHR, who has been for
| twenty years matron of the Illinois Sol
| diers' and Sailors Orphans Home at Nor
| NAL, has been removed.
| CAPTAIN MCKENZIE, the chess player,
arrived at New Orleans from Havana, on
| the Sth, en- route to st. Louis to play a
match game with Max Judd.
| TIE dead body of a man supposed to be
| Thomas Worth was found in car of moss
en- route from Baton Rouge, La, to St
Louis over the Iron Mountain road.
| THE German barber Flath, who was ar
! rested in Brooklyn on suspicion of being
| concerned in the Railway murder was ar
| raigned before police justice on the Sth
| and was discharged. There was no evil
dence to show that he was concerned in
the matter.
THE Illinois Central announces that it
has practically completed negotiation for
the purchase of the Dubuque and Sioux
| City railway
IKE Pope has forwarded to the French
| Government proposals aiming to bring
| about an understanding with France with
| reference to the establishment of diplo-
| matte relations between the Vatican and
| China.
Four thousand two hundred and seven
| ty-three i'm migrants were landed on the
S.h at Castle Garden, the largest number
| in one day at this season of the year since
1aSII6 GtfUen was nrSC USED as a rGceD-
ton place for immigrants.
CHARLES JOHNSON, the prisoner con-
victed of the murder of John Walters, a
turnkey i'll the Waterloo On. " Jail on
| January 9, was sentenced on the Sth to be
| hanged May %, by Judge Frances A. Nc
/ Comber, at Waterloo. An appeal will be
| taken and noticed at the the June term of
| Court.
| JENNIE JEFFREY HARRISON, the young
| gypsy queen who died in child-bed at
jackson, Miss, December 81, 1886, was
| buried IN the gypsy lot at Wood land
| Cemetery, Dayton, O., on the Sth, with all
the funeral honors accorded in the gypsy
| burial service.
| THE directors of the mint, under the
| provisions of section 1910 Revised Sta tues,
| and with the approval Of the Secretary of
| the Treasury, has issued circular invit-
| ing designs for the diverse and reverse
for the silver dollar and the minor coins
| OF the United States. An award of not
| to exceed 800 Will be made for each &C
| cepted set of designs.
! NEWS from Berlin is to the effect that
| the police have begun an active cam paign
| against Socialists in many of the larger
German towns and cities, with the result
| of discovering and selling large guam
| tity of Socialistic literature and arresting
| many persons holding social democratic
views.
| ABOUT two hundred stonecutters en-
ployed in the various yards of Indianapo-
| lis threw down their tools on the Sth and
| refused to work until an increase from
| thirty-five to forty-five cents an hour is
granted. The employers have deter
mined not to grant the increase under any
circumstances.
AT convention of the prominent peach
| growers of Warren and Hunterdon coun-
| ties. \. j., just held, it was generally ad-
| mitted that the outlook favored an I'M
usually large crop of fruit, especially
| peaches. One gentleman said the crop of
| the coming season would be the heaviest
| known for wears.
THE Rowland Clothes-pin factory, be-
| longing to Aldrich & Brayman, at Custer,
| Mich, was burned on the night of the 18th.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $1,000. This was
| the largest clothes pin factory in the
world, and it's average daily output was
| 10000 pins. The mill will probably be
rebuilt.